Postfix mail transfer agent not sending mail locally or to other servers

sketelsen · 08-22-2004, 08:22 PM

I've installed postfix under debian, and it seems that no mail is being delivered or received, either on the local machine (i.e. sketelsen@localhost) or anywhere else. I've reconfigured it a couple of times, and each time i make certain that the server is listening on the correct interface, that the server is correctly named, and all that jazz. However, i just can't seem to get the darned thing to work. i send mail thru kmail using sendmail, however, nothing ever shows up in /var/mail. What can i do? Any ideas?

kryptonite0110 · 02-06-2006, 11:11 PM

is procmail configured? what is the output of mailq? (if it's long you can delete all the messages queued with postsuper -dALL, just to keep things organized). can you perform a telnet localhost 25? what about a telnet domain 25. i use postfix and found that my wireless router dropped all packages on port 25. And last, less /var/log/maillog is priceless.

barrulus · 02-09-2006, 12:15 PM

post the contents of your /etc/postfix/master.cf file here, you'll probably find that the procmail and inet connectors are set incorecctly or not at all

maybe also add the output from postconf...

barrulus · 02-09-2006, 12:16 PM

what about your log files, get some info from /var/log/mail.err (not sure if debian uses only mail or mail.err.info etc...)

Another highly probable reason is that you are denying relay from your self to yourself...